Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

High Intermediate

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of three semesters (or five quarters) of college-level French. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

Advanced and Above

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

This course proposes to present the great writers of the 16th and 17th centuries and to situate them in their historical, ideological, and literary context. For the 16th century, the insistence is more prominently on humanism, on Rebelais, the authors of the Pléiade and Montaigne. Corneille, Molière, Racine, along with the moralists, are more specifically addressed for the 17th century. Two precise works appear in the program: Le Cid by Corneille and La Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette.